When I arrived, there were four before the door. After it is entered in the room, they became five. Then six. A workforce of around twenty-five. I just made glup.
I tried to block the door with a chair to keep it open and potential new entrants do not expect silly in the hallway (by the way: damn, what that they are heavy, these doors! I have a lot of dog in the open!). I turned to look at my large workforce, who watched my efforts seem to say "eh beh, she has hope, that one!".
"You had over this morning? You know if your friends are going to come?
- Ben, in fact, the building was blocked this morning, so many people have gone home ...
- Ah. We'll wait ten minutes and then we see. "
I can tell you that I really emmerdée: for years, in such situations, the side" pupil "of the office, I still fervently hope that the teacher decides that was not enough to make progress and the minutes waiting to see if others were going came in Deep Thoughts gender strategy: "If you look at him with pleading eyes, is what it will all be let go? At the same time, he sees this as an encouragement to make progress, we will look for ... " It ended inevitably in the eyes of the wave to avoid eye contact with the teacher, waiting impatiently to take a decision.
Exactly the same eyes as vague as those of my students this afternoon.
Except that this time, I am no longer a student, but teacher, so it's up to me. And then I understand why my teachers put so much time to do it, so that they, like us, had only one desire, to return home: it is considering the idea and all of a sudden we think of the planning, delayed we will take them to Interros we must stick to the fact that this course it will not count ...
It widens also the recesses of the brain in search of what they had planned to do the week after, we say: "But damn, this course, I prepared a while ago! I even seen this morning to meet my good photocopies for breeding! What was that again?! " Then it has a flash and it refrains with difficulty from dropping a "shit", because of the schedule during the next week is already loaded, then combine two courses into a ... If only I had not known what to make them work, but now I'm starting to get used to the format in two hours, so I expected more than enough ...
Then we go to considerations more pressing: "Come on, I make them part of grammar and I loose, I will send a topo-mail to their friends, so I could still ask the above. Finally, when I have sufficient staff to it has a sense of bonding a Interro ... At the same time, if I plan to send a topo, is what it is I really do their part grammar? Especially since the discussion on Articles can not pass by mail. It is rather these that I should do today. But they are only six, however, it does not make much sense to do so with only one fifth of the workforce. it is still the main topic of the course. If I do not do as much to cancel everything. Yes, but they are still six is too much to simply cancel the course. And at the same time, it is not enough to behave as if nothing had happened ... "
In the end, I opted for only the grammar, telling me that I could always tweak to group Writing both sides next week. So I dropped after only one hour, after answering their questions, and I spent the whole way home wondering if I made the right choice.
In my opinion, there was none. The problem was elsewhere, higher I had not thought for one second that they can be as little. I had not anticipated this event and I found myself without a fallback. With a little imagination, I could probably improvise something more appropriate, but there I was stuck in an emergency, before the fatal question: reading or not reading?
It seems that there is a new mobilization next week, again on Thursday so I have a week to be creative ...
("A classroom at the French Lycée in Cairo" (which looks exactly like that where I am in college courses), photo by Khoyobegenn; source: Wikipedia Commons) 
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